" I
believe that, for the rest of the world contemporary
America is an almost symbolic concentration of all the
good and the bad of our civilization - ranging from the
fantastic development of science and technology
generating more welfare and the profundity of civil
liberty and strength of democratic institutions, to the
blind cult of perpetual economic growth and never-ending
consumption, no matter how detrimental to the
environment, the dictates of materialism, consumerism and
advertising, the voiding of human uniqueness and its
replacement by the uniformity of the round-the-clock
noise of TV banality.

Who thinks
today about future generations? Who is concerned about
what people will eat, drink, breathe in one hundred
years, where they will get energy when there are twice as
many people living on this planet as today? Only an
idealist, a dreamer, a genuinely spiritual person who,
they say, is not modern enough.

These
dreamers, who are often at the margin of society, will
find their way to the place they belong, among the
politicians, only if the very spirit of politics changes
towards deeper responsibility for the world. "

Václav
Havel, 1997

Give voice to the silenced
Speak truth to power
Revitalize public debate
--
Independent media

We the
People
declare independence
when
corporate America
rules the world